Posted on 02/12/2016 7:06:12 AM PST by xzins
The latest national poll by Morning Consult shows that Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump's lead has spiked by 6 points over second-place Ted Cruz, whose support remains flat.
The survey, released Friday, conducted Wednesday and Thursday, after Trump's win in the New Hampshire primary, also shows that a decline in the percentage of voters who support someone other than the six remaining GOP candidates or who haven't made up their minds.
Here's the breakdown:
•Donald Trump: 44 percent (up from 38 percent a week earlier)
•Ted Cruz: 17 percent (17 percent)
•Ben Carson: 10 percent (9 percent)
•Marco Rubio: 10 percent (15 percent)
•Jeb Bush: 8 percent (6 percent)
•John Kasich 4 percent (2 percent)
•Someone else 1 percent (6 percent)
•Don't know/No opinion 6 percent (8 percent)
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Carson is polling 4th and is AHEAD of Bush AND he is flush with cash. He pulled in 24 million at the end of the year...more than ANY other candidate. He has cut staff to be able to fund himself all the way to Cleveland.
He has a decent shot at winning/placing in Michigan and/or Maryland, his 2 home states.
Because Cruz seems to hate Trump, lately.
Besides that, he gets to stay in the Senate if he isn’t VP, and that’s a reliable voice for a balanced budget, life, God, and guns.
AND, I really would like him in the Supreme Court some day. That would be FAR more useful than VP in the long run.
So you had my posts pulled?
Please point me to any place in the link I quoted from that said it could not be republished. It doesn’t exist.
Are you so ignorant that when an opinion sys it is not to be published unless the court orders it to be published only means it cannot be cited as authority in another appeal in a different case? Has nothing to do with republishing it in order to inform others.
And, by the way, you would see that the court authorized/ordered it to be published just a few inches below the caption. Not very good attention to detail on your part, was it.
Obviously you are a liar because you intentionally mistaked this FACT.
No. I’m talking about the threads against Cruz that you objected to the day before New Hampshire. I had them pulled. I posted them.
Sigh
see #21
People think Trump only thinks of himself. Here in a moment of focus on him, he expresses love for his sister, nothing more.
Folks, please lighten up. Some of these objections are silly. I’ll bet you thought he was serious about that guy being his VP pick too.
I think you folks are too wrapped up in this, to the point you’re not thinking rationally.
I doubt you’ll agree, but I’m not saying this to insult you, even if you think it is an insult.
And in response to that, a YUGE swath of pissed off Sanders supporters will vote Trump in the general as their way of flipping off the DNC.
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Oh, yes, and they are SO MAD!!! About half my friends on a social media forum are young. Every one favors Sanders from somewhat to rabid. For many of them, this is the first election they have followed and vested in. This is a real opportunity to point out to the, the superdelegate scam IS a form of ‘equitable distribution’. Drive the example home, and introduce them to the idea of freedom rather than dependency, which the Uniparty had weened and entire generation on now.
If you look at the Overtime Politics MA poll, among blacks:
Carson 67, Trump 33
As a team they could account for every single Republican black voter.
And Carson has publicly said (yesterday?) that he is interested in being Trump’s VP.
And he puts Michigan and Maryland in play.
Trump puts NY, NJ, NH, MI, and PA into play.
If they get those, then turn out the lights, the party’s over.
If they split off just a few blacks nationwide, then Mrs. Clinton is in big trouble.
In all these polls, that is the ONLY place Carson has an impact. Sad, but true.
However ...
I do not believe any of the pandering that he is currently engaged in.
What will he actually do once he is in office and not beholden to us in any way...
Which of these do you oppose that would cause you to walk? 1. He supports a temporary ban on muslim immigration 2. He supports fixing broken trade deals. 3. He supports building a wall and restoring our sovereignty over immigration. 4. He supports justices like Scalia and Thomas 5. He supports 2nd amendment 6. He supports RILOM pro-life 7. He supports ending crony capitalism 8. He has no secret billionaires to whom he owes allegiance. 9. He wants to rebuild our military on the advice of our fighting generals. 10. He supports eminent domain for renewing economic activity. 11. He supports ending the Iran nuke deal. 12. He supports taking ISIS oil, their financial resources, and bombing their economy to hell and back.
The self-admitted communist/socialist closing in on the commie & traitor!
“In the Democratic Party race, the poll shows that Bernie Sanders continues to gain on Hillary Clinton, with his support growing and hers waning:”
Hillary Clinton: 46 percent (down from 50 percent a week ago)
Bernie Sanders: 39 percent (37 percent)
Someone else: 8 percent (5 percent)
Don’t know/No opinion: 7 percent (8 percent)
“I must admit, I’m flabbergasted that is it now considered sleazy for a politician to ask people to vote for him on election day.”
A man murdered his daughter and fed her to the pigs. In prison, he complained that the nation was so corrupt that it would put a man in prison because he took care of his livestock.
You choose Hillary or Sanders over Trump????
I guess that tells us a lot about Cruz supporters...
I support Trump. If Cruz is the nominee, I vote for Cruz and encourage everyone I can to vote for Cruz.
It’s not choosing Hillary over Trump. It’s choosing more invasion and more dead Americans like Kate Steinle over Trump.
I will gladly vote for Cruz or Carson if Trump falters.
We’re in the FL panhandle, and know many conservative Christians.
Months ago, many expressed support for Carson. When it became more clear to them that he admitted some youthful mental challenges, they stopped supporting him. But here’s the thing: NONE of them ever expressed support for Cruz.
This seems odd because they are Christians and he professes Christianity. Whether they simply just don’t like him, or question his character, I don’t know because they never mention his name as a candidate they might consider.
>>The Rats will put Hillary up as their candidate. No doubt.
And in response to that, a YUGE swath of pissed off Sanders supporters will vote Trump in the general as their way of flipping off the DNC.
That’s exactly how I see it, and pray for it!
The national polls are meaningless because Trump has the populist category to himself, while the RINO vote is divided among several candidates, and the conservative vote is divided between Cruz and Carson.
The dynamics of the race will change when the field is reduced to Trump, Cruz and Rubio.
As soon as Bush & Carson drop out voters are going to start flocking to Cruz? Must be some good stuff you are smoking. The bulk of those voters are going to Rubio. If they don’t like Cruz now they never will.
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